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Good morning and happy Wednesday! Democratic socialist Angie Nixon stunned the establishment last night with her Florida Senate primary win — after being outspent by over $15 million.
We’ll get into that, plus:
Trump’s status as kingmaker is officially gone after last night’s primaries
ABC sues Trump's FCC — after a Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania
Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit is finally being unsealed
And: the problems with Trump’s Navy are spreading
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In what the Democratic establishment did not see coming, state Rep. Angie Nixon — a member of the Democratic Socialists of America — won the Florida Democratic Senate primary Tuesday, defeating former Army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman.
Vindman entered the race with $16.3 million to Nixon's $975,000 at the end of July.
She won anyway.
Nixon now faces Republican Ashley Moody in November in what will be one of the most-watched Senate races in the country — a DSA candidate running statewide in Florida, in a cycle where Trump's endorsement record is visibly crumbling and progressive primary upsets are becoming a pattern. The establishment bet $16 million that the path forward in Florida ran through a credentialed centrist.
Angie Nixon just cashed that bet and kept the change.
2. Trump's endorsement touch is gone — three more picks lose in one night
Three more Trump-endorsed candidates lost their primaries last night, bringing his recent losing streak to at least six in two weeks — including Andy Ogles and Amir Hassan, both sitting Republican congressmen he backed.
Two of Tuesday's losses came in Florida, Trump's home state, where his pick Catalina Lauf — a two-time failed congressional candidate from Illinois — went down in the race to replace Rep. Byron Donalds.
That same race featured Chris Collins, a former congressman Trump pardoned after he pleaded guilty to insider trading and lying to Congress, and Madison Cawthorn, who lost his own seat in 2022 amid a cascade of scandals.
Trump didn't endorse either of them. He went with the Illinois import who lost twice.
A week before Tuesday's results, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lost badly in the Minnesota governor's race — also with Trump's backing.
The kingmaker myth sure is taking a beating.
3. ABC sues Trump's FCC — and the trigger was a Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania
Disney filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the FCC, arguing the Brendan Carr-led agency has "waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts.”
The immediate provocation: a Kimmel joke last spring in which he said Melania Trump glowed "like an expectant widow" — which triggered demands that eight ABC-owned stations file early broadcast license renewals, a procedural cudgel that could strip them of the right to broadcast. The FCC's only Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, told reporters she was glad ABC sued — her own agency.
The lawsuit lands in D.C. federal court, and it forces the question: does the First Amendment apply to jokes the president doesn't like?
4. Virginia Giuffre's Maxwell lawsuit is finally being unsealed
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered the public release of files from Virginia Giuffre's 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the Epstein Files Transparency Act supersedes the grand jury secrecy arguments Maxwell used to keep thousands of pages of discovery documents sealed for eight years.
The lawsuit's discovery process produced records implicating Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, and other powerful figures.
Maxwell fought the unsealing. She lost. The documents are coming.
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What the algorithm buried:
The problems with Trump’s Navy are more widespread than just the USS Lincoln — sailors on another ship went days without toilets, air conditioning, or potable water
John Oliver absolutely torched Pete Hegseth over the USS Lincoln
Trump voted by mail again Tuesday — the same day he's still calling for "no more crooked mail-in ballots."
The White House called Jon Ossoff "Pee-Wee Herman," "Jon Jackoff," and a "feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama" — because he mentioned Natalie Harp at a rally
Scott Jennings went on CNN to defend Trump over the Natalie Harp story and it backfired spectacularly
Natalie Harp's estranged brother went on CNN to say her obsession with Trump predates what she's claimed
Trump's Secret Service was reportedly "alarmed" by Natalie Harp's closeness to the president, per a new book
Jeanine Pirro had a public event abruptly canceled as she scrambles to keep her job
Hakeem Jeffries took over $300,000 in PAC money from healthcare companies this cycle alone — no wonder he came out against Medicare for All
Travelers are stranded and flights are getting missed because Trump renamed a Florida airport after himself
Why does Trump keep posting AI images of himself with dead presidents?
More than half of U.S. states are taking Meta to trial — and the number they're after is $200 billion
More than half of the U.S. states have joined together in an unprecedented lawsuit against Meta
Trump is chasing a date with Kim Jong Un while his other diplomatic efforts fall apart
Somehow, Trump's own adviser has absolutely no idea why he won’t drop one toxic fication
if you haven’t already, check out our YouTube video on how Fox News’ 3600+ attacks on Mamdani are backfiring — and if you could, please “like” the video and subscribe to the channel — a new video will be out tomorrow!
NOTICE POLLING
Last week, we asked, Do you think every member of the Trump administration should be prosecuted for their crimes?
98% OF YOU SAID YES:
“Lock them all up!!!!!!! Enough is ENOUGH!!!”
- debroth
“If any of us were committing these crimes, you can bet we’d be prosecuted. Why should they be exempt?!?!”
- jdecerbo
“Aiding and abetting a crime is a crime. Conspiring to commit a crime or cover up a crime is a crime. Prosecute them all. Dig Mitch up and prosecute him, too.”
- twoasps
“Absolutely 100%! They are running our government like an organized crime syndicate. It's not just the ones committing the crimes, it's also all those who turned a blind eye and let it happen. I don't think think Supreme Court should get away scott free either. The ridiculous immunity granted was criminal. It put him above the law and he ran with it. Take the Heritage Foundation as well. Our government needs a total rebuild. It was already broken but now it's destroyed. ”
- obitlinda1712
“We must defend and protect our Constitution and our values from people who have turned greed and deception into an art form.”
- lamakul
AN ELOQUENT NO: “If the Democrats take control of Congress they should spend their time and energy helping the American people, including righting the wrongs perpetrated by the Trump administration's crimes. Prosecuting your political opponents (even if they have committed crimes) smacks of Trumpism and sets a troublesome and dangerous precedent, in addition to de-prioritizing the needs of the American public.” — respectfully, we think Dems need to be able to walk and chew gum — it clearly sets a dangerous precedent NOT to prosecute people for their crimes!
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That’s all for today — thank you so much for reading.
We will see you tomorrow.
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